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...Government Party or Kuomintang, it might be possible to face the realities of China and Japan squarely, or at least as squarely as Oriental minds can face anything. The reality is that a policy of Asiatic cooperation, even with vast China flying for some years as the kite on Japan's string, might get the Orient somewhere a great deal faster than it has ever got before...
Facts & Feats. Despite popular impressions, Dr. Carrel is not the tail of the Lindbergh kite. He has had a fine full career of his own, which, had it been in politics or retail merchandising or baseball, instead of scientific research, would have made him a familiar character to newsreaders from coast to coast. After looking back on that career for more than a year, Dr. Carrel this week published a book into which he packed the essence of his experiences, philosophy and intuition as a doctor and as a man. He called it Man, the Unknown.* Its theme is that...
...consents. There is one scene in which Pretorius and Frankenstein make a heart for their she-demon out of the still warm organ of a young girl murdered by their assistant, and another in which they impregnate her with crackling life from a lightning bolt brought down on gigantic kite-cables. The synthetic woman (Elsa Lanchester) lives to demonstrate complete distaste for the monster intended as her mate before she is blown jnto eternity with Dr. Pretorius...
Suppose you are a chimney sweep named G. J. Kite. You wait and wait for the chimneys of Windsor Castle to need sweeping. You cannot offer to sweep them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...